Reveal Your Uncool Culinary Beliefs Here

not big into bread bowls, I like dipping bread into stuff, not having the bread be part of stuff.

(flaky crusted stuff like pot pies, otoh, are the best, and I love even the shitty $1 grocery store ones)

MSG was wrongly vilified for racist reasons in the 80s yea

MSG is a vastly underrated

Not uncool at all, it's been used for thousands of years. My dickwad stepdad "BOB" used to have a big Farmers Brothers can of it, he'd put it on everything

In San Francisco, bread bowls are sort of a tourist trap thing that we all sneer at, but I wondered if there was any genuine love for these, guess not

you might want to stock up on MSG before your insane politicians try and ban it!

good point

tbh I think most foodies still look down their noses at MSG

xp Denatured alcohol has been banned in California and there's really no substitute, I use if for all kinds of woodworking projects

Now they wanna ban Skittles

anybody takes my skittles i'm taking their teeth

xp but we're looking down our noses at foodies on this thread

i'm tall i look down my nose at most people

right I was saying MSG was a good post! sorry

and wait what's this about Skittles?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/22/california-skittles-ban-legislation-explained/11523314002/

Skittles are the gateway to Fentanyl

You can get perfectly good bagels anywhere in America now.

I like velveeta

It's fine to order your food mild

I kind of like industrial cheeses like Kraft American and Polly-O

McDonald's fries are good

― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:15 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

all bougie fries worth a damn are attempting to recreate mcdonalds fries so i'm pretty sure this is a widely held opinion among the pros

“small plates” and “share plates” are just bougie excuses for not giving me a normal amount of food

winco fried chicken is great & cheap

cold leftover spaghetti sandwiches rule (homemade spag bol is good for this but canned spaghetti is best)

pomegranates are better as juice & artichokes are better in jars - too much work in their natural state

eating slices of Kraft American cheese singles one at a time is awesome

ok one i actually believe is small plates and share plates are an excuse for the restaurant to run their service like shit and not course out the meal properly

i actually have a friend who we like to share a little of each of each other's food but tbf that doesn't actually require serving mini-meals that cost $9, you can just share full entrees.

Burger King is better than McD's

the food, sure, but all of the actual buildings themselves are awful near me. also all of them have "You Rule" written on the marquee, is that like the new slogan?

i'm happy that we have a Jollibee here now, hope it's as good as the one in Manila

Midwest pizza styles, particularly Chicago deep-dish and Detroit-style buttery crust, are streets ahead of New York styles.

Same with midwest IPAs (especially St Louis) vs. their northeast cohorts.

ok now hold up

request thread title change to “Reveal your UNCOOLINARY Beliefs Here”

as you were

well made tiki drinks are amazing

white bread is generally better than whole wheat

pomegranates are better as juice

pomegranate molasses >>>>>>>>>> pomegranate juice

everyone likes tiki drinks

I confess that I will totally eat soup out of a bread bowl, then I will fucking eat all the bread that used to be a bowl.

its a waste if you dont!

Like, I would totally bust a move on a Panera French onion soup in a bread bowl right now. #sorrynotsorry

Damn

french onion soup is gross there i said it

soggy bread is a crime against nature

it's ok. it's never very good bread.

I will choose almost anything edible over creamy soups or western cream sauces.

i dunno if i love anything as much as i love a ballpark brand boiled hotdog

Church's Fried Chicken (which I haven't had in 20 years) was real good, precisely because it tasted exactly like the old Swanson's TV Dinners.

Have realised that I and my wife have the culinary tastes of people in their 90s (we are both 43) - sweet sherry, cream liquers, wafer biscuits, rum baba, pork scratchings. even our kids have picked up our taste for Brussels sprouts and haggis.
but now I realise that this isn't about tastes, it's beliefs, hold on, got some of those too.

Best, most neglected flavours for things: mint, pear. I will find French import shops to buy mint cordial every summer, and will always get a pear ice lolly if it's ever available

Ok, thought of one. Every chain restaurant/bakery in the UK is bad. including bakeries because Greggs, there is nothing good in there, nothing. Their pizza is an absolute crime. I honestly don't know why nobody seems to have noticed.
Since moving back to the UK in 2016 I have tried every chain restaurant, think the worst is Itzu, but all were some shade of bad.

Itsu, it's called, sorry.

I used to like the Itsu brand udon noodle pots when they had chunkier noodles, but then they decided to change what didn't need changing. Their seaweed thins are nice though, but too expensive.

if I were to pin down what I don't like about it:

* UK Asian fusion restaurants are always bad, putting very different kinds of food together in clumsy, insulting ways
* "Heathy" focus means piling up dishes with cold edamame beans and uncooked carrot, and not adding any salt or msg, nothing tastes of anything at all.

Ok, thought of one. Every chain restaurant/bakery in the UK is bad. including bakeries because Greggs, there is nothing good in there, nothing. Their pizza is an absolute crime. I honestly don't know why nobody seems to have noticed.

they've noticed but they like it. ppl fetishise bad food here.

most of the things i make with garlic are just as good with garlic i can keep in my fridge. i have tried it both ways (fresh/jar) and this is the way that works for me if i want to actually make my own food, which i do. no one has ever complained about it either.

depending on what type of garlic you have, (I am obv biased but Californian is generally better than Chinese imports) refrigerated garlic is great, and is what I use. I generally get CR crushed, but if I was doing more cooking, I'd have a jar of crushed and a jar of minced for different things.

A kid 1 grade ahead was expelled for stealing a bin of communion wafers to snack on at home.

transubstantiated foods are uncool right now

Taking sides: Host vs. Hostess

Christwinkies

I like so-called bland trad vegetable soups like French Onion and Leek and Potato made using boring unreconstructed recipes, that probably is uncool.

A kid 1 grade ahead was expelled for stealing a bin of communion wafers to snack on at home.

― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton),

we sacristans used to munch on these after we'd sent the priest off to Mass

iirc they aren't jesus until the priest temple of dooms them just before communion anyway.

One knock against artificial sweetners in diet soda is it can cause cravings for real sugar later. I do wonder if MSG doesn't do something higher order but harmful like that in a snack food context.

This is something that I've read about the 0-calorie fake sugars too (stevia et al). Not only does eating sweet things make you want to eat more sweet things, I've heard that the brain registers the sweetness but not the attendant caloric boost and so it gets hijacked into eating more. I'm definitely not food scientist though!

I've always been against drinking my calories, and was anti-smoothie until recently. Maybe this is uncool? I like to chew.

But lately I've been having smoothies for half my meals for health reasons, and it's a weird feeling to consume this thing that I know is very calorie-dense but goes down so quickly and uh smoothly, and not feeling very satisfied mentally/emotionally but then feeling quite full in a bit.

This one has grossed a few of friends out over the years: Heinz Ketchup is a great- maybe the best- thing to dip egg rolls in. Especially SysCo egg rolls, like what Jack in the Box makes. Which taste good.

++ on the sundried tomatoes. Sure they are a very 90s thing along with risotto and paninis but I still like using them diced up and tossed thru pasta with tuna and caramelised onion as a mega simple dinner.